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Complementary and competitive: the impact of Chinese trade on South African manufacturing exports
This paper makes use of South African industry level data to identify the effects of Chinese trade on South African manufacturing exports. It contributes to the existing literature by considering the implications of the different channels of exports identified in Kaplinsky et al. (2007) for Chinese...
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| author | Chien, Jing-Woei |
| author2 | Edwards, Lawrence |
| author_browse | Chien, Jing-Woei Edwards, Lawrence |
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| description | This paper makes use of South African industry level data to identify the effects of Chinese trade on South African manufacturing exports. It contributes to the existing literature by considering the implications of the different channels of exports identified in Kaplinsky et al. (2007) for Chinese exports. In particular, the direct complementary (positive) and indirect competitive (negative) channels are identified as the key channels for China-South Africa export relations. The impact of these channels are looked at, not only in the terms of aggregate export values, but also the extensive margin (product count). Overall, the results suggest a positive effect arising from Chinese exports. This result is, however, dulled by the negative implications of the indirect competitive channel effect on the extensive margin. A breakdown of the manufacturing sector into low and high-wage industries reveals that high-wage industries are the main recipients of benefits from Chinese exports through the direct complementary channel. Furthermore, the marginal effect of China from the rest of the world reveals a significantly positive difference in the high and low-wage industries for the aggregate export value and extensive margins respectively, while other specifications are inconclusive. |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/20531 Complementary and competitive: the impact of Chinese trade on South African manufacturing exports Chien, Jing-Woei Edwards, Lawrence Economics This paper makes use of South African industry level data to identify the effects of Chinese trade on South African manufacturing exports. It contributes to the existing literature by considering the implications of the different channels of exports identified in Kaplinsky et al. (2007) for Chinese exports. In particular, the direct complementary (positive) and indirect competitive (negative) channels are identified as the key channels for China-South Africa export relations. The impact of these channels are looked at, not only in the terms of aggregate export values, but also the extensive margin (product count). Overall, the results suggest a positive effect arising from Chinese exports. This result is, however, dulled by the negative implications of the indirect competitive channel effect on the extensive margin. A breakdown of the manufacturing sector into low and high-wage industries reveals that high-wage industries are the main recipients of benefits from Chinese exports through the direct complementary channel. Furthermore, the marginal effect of China from the rest of the world reveals a significantly positive difference in the high and low-wage industries for the aggregate export value and extensive margins respectively, while other specifications are inconclusive. 2016-07-20T12:29:13Z 2016-07-20T12:29:13Z 2016 Master Thesis Masters MCom http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20531 eng application/pdf School of Economics Faculty of Commerce University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Economics Chien, Jing-Woei Complementary and competitive: the impact of Chinese trade on South African manufacturing exports |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Complementary and competitive: the impact of Chinese trade on South African manufacturing exports |
| title_full | Complementary and competitive: the impact of Chinese trade on South African manufacturing exports |
| title_fullStr | Complementary and competitive: the impact of Chinese trade on South African manufacturing exports |
| title_full_unstemmed | Complementary and competitive: the impact of Chinese trade on South African manufacturing exports |
| title_short | Complementary and competitive: the impact of Chinese trade on South African manufacturing exports |
| title_sort | complementary and competitive the impact of chinese trade on south african manufacturing exports |
| topic | Economics |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20531 |
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